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Welcome to the Potters of Hickory Street

Welcome to THE POTTERS OF HICKORY STREET. We are located on North 8th and Hickory in Abilene, Texas. We have an amazing selection of handmade pottery made by our Friends in Texas. We have students from ages 6 all the way to 89.
Our Gallery is full right now and we are making new pots every day in preparation for the Holidays. Start shopping early! If you want to add your own flair to the pieces, come and paint your own pottery. We will provide the bisque ware and you glaze it. We will fire it for you and then you pick it up in less than a week. It is a great activity for the family or a girls night out. Plan a party with Dori and she will make your experience a great one!
We are fully equipped with two working studios with wheels, slab rollers, work tables, extruders, pug mills, glazes, kilns and a whole lot more.
We have a great variety of teachers for you. One who excels at working with kids, One who has over forty years experience in the field and is the owner of the place and a new one with an MFA in ceramics and over 15 years experience teaching at the college level. What a great team we all make to make your experience here exactly what you want it to be.
So many choices when it comes to glazes. You will be able to choose whatever glazes you want to finish your work and how beautiful they look all done. More pictures coming soon! We hope you come by and visit us soon. We would love to show you around or just come in and play or sign up for classes with an instructor. We will be watching for you.

Abstract Inspirations is up and selling

There are two good websites to see Brad's new work, he is currently on display at the Center for Contemporary Arts in ABilene, Texas and he has posted most of the work on his blog as they were in the process so you will see a good example of the work here. The pieces look good in the gallery and are selling well, so I encourage anyone looking for some colorful abstracted work to look around and reserve what you want now. I will work out your payments with you.

http://www.center-arts.com/exhibits/exhibits_home.html


http://bradleyoiler.blogspot.com

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New things are in the works....patience.

I have had a lot of people ask what is new? When will we see new sculptures or ceramic works and the truth is soon I hope! I am working on a few ideas for a new series and in the meantime I am keeping up with some of my older work with highly detailed carving, I will post pictures of these examples soon. The new year is already looking good and will hopefully be inspiring! Keep posted and feel free to browse the archives to see older works. Be sure to check out Brad's site for current work, he has a show going up this month and has some great Abstracted works!

http://bradleyoiler.blogspot.com/

Keep in touch and Have a Great start to a new year!

THe Oilers

Summer Trip 2010

We took a family trip to Ohio to visit my family this summer, the cousins in Ohio, Aunt Jendi, Uncle Fred, Pop Pop and Grandma Barb and Na Na Su Su. We had the best time and got a chance to reconnect to family that the visits are way to far apart. Hopefully we will be able to revisit again soon. Here are a few pictures of the kids from the trip.






I urge everyone to stay as close to family as possible and to visit as often as you can! It is difficult to be so far away. We miss you all dreadfully and hope to be back soon.

The rest of the Paintings from my current studies....

So this is it for now, I am and will continue to work on these and others so stay tuned for more paintings. I have some great new ceramic work almost done and ready to post about after our trip to Ohio, so stay tuned. In the mean time, I will post about the trip and family to keep those interested updated! Stay Heatlhy and Keep Smiling! Create something new every day!

New Paintings that I am still working on.......

All of these are in progress and probably will be for a while, I am still learning how to paint within my own style and I struggle with a flat canvas. I am so use to being able to manipulate my material in a three dimensional form that I find drawing and painting a challenge, I was once told that a certain part of my brain works well in a three dimensional capacity and not in a two dimensional world, I know there is something to that, but I know that with practice and diligence I can master anything I set my mind to so I post them for the world to see.... It helps to hold me accountable for continuing in my study of drawing and painting to improve my skills. I know that as I become a better artist in any form it will influence my art in all areas even in ceramics and I am excited about the possibilities! Bear with me on this Journey! Keep Smiling and Creating!